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"It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him."
"We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear."
"Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar."
"I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere."
"I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority."
"It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'"
"My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother."
"In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure."
"You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more."
"I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off."
"I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple."
"After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent."
"If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind."
"I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution."
"I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution."
"We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all."
"Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running."
"We gave up everything just to sit at your table."
"Don't you think that the Beatles gave every sodden thing they've got to be the Beatles? That took a whole section of our youth - that whole period - when everybody else was just goofin' off we were workin' 24 hours a day!"
"There is no problem only solutions"